Currently chief interviewer for the sunday times sports section, he is also the author of andy townsends autobiography, and of the highly acclaimed full time the secret life of tony cascarino. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Rough ride by paul kimmage penguin books australia. Kimmage, now a sports journalist, was a successful amateur who never won a race as a professional. First published in 1990, rough ride is one of the greatest books ever written about the life of a professional athlete. It tells of kimmages youth as an amateur in ireland before turning pro after finishing sixth in. A rough ride would highlight the problem and make it better for all involved. An eyeopening expose and a heartbreaking lament, it is a book that anyone interested in any sport should read. His awful admission of the needle of a syringe being slipped under the skin of. In the light of recent events i wanted to go back and read the book again. David walsh says its the most important cycling book ever written. In tracing his mixed fortunes, kimmage describes not only the grueling pressures of the sport but also the seamier side.
Reading rough ride is a lot like driving by a car crash. Almost twenty years later, yellow jersey is publishing an updated edition of this cycling classic, with a new foreword by the author which reflects on. In this extract from the ascent, the fallout from paul kimmages rough ride book is recalled. An insight into pro cycling, paul kimmage 1990, stanley paul a sport rife with drugs. Currently chief interviewer for the sunday times sports section, he is also the author of andy townsends autobiography, and of the highly acclaimed full time. Since writing rough ride, paul kimmage has gone on to become one of the uk and irelands most respected sports journalists. Rough ride isbn 9780224080170 pdf epub paul kimmage. However, kimmage himself never won a professional race. Even kimmage succumbs on a few occasions to get through a couple of rough days everyone else. His book rough ride won the william hill sports book of the year award. Paul kimmages rough ride gives insight into a world ive never seen.
I knew it was going to cause me a lot of problems and cost me some friendships but the truth of. See all formats and editions hide other formats and editions. In july 2014, a documentary film called rough rider was shown. Rough ride quotes showing 12 of 2 the amazing thing about being a bike rider is that you always know from the first turn of the pedals what sort of a day you are going to have. The following passage is an extract from the ascent. Paul kimmages book rough ride has been seen as the doping book, the text that exposed the use of banned substances in pro cycling when it was published 1990 but its much more than this. In a featurelength interview with eamon dunphy on the former soccer pros new podcast, kimmage says the reaction to his book rough ride was lasting.
Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. In a rough ride, paul kimmage gives a devastatingly frank account of what life is really like in the world of professional cycling. Behind the wheel with a pro cyclist yellow jersey cycling classics kimmage, paul on. What originally made you come out and publish rough ride. In the 80s irish cyclist sean kelly and stephen roche were the top stars, but kimmage never reached such heights. Though paul kimmage got some instant notoriety at the tour of california for his confrontation with lance armstrong, anti doping has been a battle hes been waging since 1990 with the publication of his book rough ride rough ride tells the story of kimmages cycling career, that of a moderately talented domestique who resisted the temptation of doping as much as he could and. Kimmage ultimately left the sport to write this book profoundly honest and groundbreaking, rough ride broke the silence surrounding the issue of drugs in sport, and documents one mans love for, and struggle with, the complex world of professional cycling. Rough ride is a raw story of the world of professional cycling. He has been named sports interviewer of the year five times at the sports journalists association awards.
Paul kimmage was irish junior champion before riding for an amateur squad in paris and becoming a professional with a french. It is 20 years since paul kimmage first published rough ride, his very personal and critical account of his professional racing career and the problems of doping in cycling. Paul kimmages boyhood dreams were of cycling glorywearing the yellow jersey. Though without the substance of kimmages book, maertens still confirmed much of the gist of what kimmage said in a rough ride. Behind the wheel with a pro cyclist by paul kimmage. Buy rough ride 2nd revised edition by kimmage, paul isbn. An eyeopening expose of and a heartbreaking lament for professional cy. Rough ride is a william hill sports book of the year, written by irish journalist paul kimmage in 1990 it is an autobiography that charts the authors upbringing in dublin and his obsession with cycling, which started with his father being a toplevel irish amateur.
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